â€œThe Veeam and ExaGrid engineering teams have worked together for the past year to make sure the two products work together in the most efficient manner possible,â€ said Rick Hoffman, Vice President of Channels and Alliances at Veeam. â€œWe have fully certified the integrated solution so customers can deploy it with confidence and achieve outstanding and affordable data protection. While Veeam Backup & Replication is storage agnostic and can work with whatever system our customers choose, this combined solution provides exceptional value.â€

The ExaGrid landing zone, a high-speed cache on the ExaGrid appliance, maintains the most recent Veeam backups in their original formats. This technology and architecture, operating in tandem with Veeam Backup & Replication, means users can instantly recover and run an entire VM directly from ExaGridâ€™s disk-based backup system should the primary VM be unavailable. While most other deduplication products only retain a deduplicated copy, often resulting in limited functionality, ExaGridâ€™s architecture allows customers to fully leverage Veeam Backup & Replicationâ€™s Instant VM Recovery feature to minimise downtime and disruption.

â€œOrganisations realise that they need to back up and protect their virtualised applications while maintaining ready access to their data,â€ said Marc Crespi at ExaGrid Systems. â€œThe ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication appliances provides a reliable, highly scalable and economical disk-based backup solution for Veeam Backup & Replication. This allows customers to achieve high availability of their virtualised environments, as well as recovery times measured in minutes, not hours.â€

â€œWe were very pleased with Veeam for efficiently managing our VM backups prior to implementing ExaGrid, and are even more pleased to see the advantages of the two products tightly integrated,â€ said Brian Muir, Network/Systems Administrator at Hoffman Corporation. â€œWeâ€™ve benefited greatly from being able to move our Veeam backups off the SAN and onto the much more cost-effective ExaGrid disk backup system. In addition, our VM restores are very fast. When evaluating backup alternatives, we couldnâ€™t find anything like ExaGrid and Veeam to meet our functional and budget needs that was also easy to manage and set up.â€

ExaGrid customers are also now able to download a free evaluation copy of Veeam Backup & Replication with any purchase of an ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication system.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimised for performance, scalability and price. The combination of post-process deduplication, most recent backup cache, and GRID scalability enables IT departments to achieve the shortest backup window and the fastest, most reliable restores, tape copy, and disaster recovery without performance degradation or forklift upgrades as data grows. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 3,500 systems installed, more than 1,000 customers, and 250 published customer success stories and video testimonials.

About Veeam Software
Veeam Software (veeam.co.uk), an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner, develops innovative software to manage VMware vSphereÂ®. Veeam vPowerâ„¢ provides advanced Virtualization-Powered Data Protectionâ„¢ and is the underlying technology in Veeam Backup & Replicationâ„¢, the #1 virtualisation backup solution. Veeam nworks extends enterprise monitoring to VMware and includes the nworks Management Packâ„¢ for VMware management in Microsoft System Center and the nworks Smart Plug-inâ„¢ for VMware management in HP Operations Manager. Veeam ONEâ„¢ provides a single solution to optimise the performance, configuration and utilisation of VMware environments and includes: Veeam Monitorâ„¢ for easy-to-deploy VMware monitoring; Veeam Reporterâ„¢ for VMware capacity planning, change management, and reporting and chargeback; and Veeam Business Viewâ„¢ for VMware business service management and categorisation.